Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Diagnostic Potential of Speech Narratives in Hindi for Alzheimer’s Disease
Kritesh Rauniyar, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Sweta Poudel, Surendrabikram Thapa, Usman Naseem, Mehwish Nasim
Abstract
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects cognitive abilities and memory, especially in older adults. One of the challenges of AD is that it can be difficult to diagnose in its early stages. However, recent research has shown that changes in language, including speech decline and difficulty in processing information, can be important indicators of AD and may help with early detection. Hence, the speech narratives of the patients can be useful in diagnosing the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. While the previous works have presented the potential of using speech narratives to diagnose AD in high-resource languages, this work explores the possibility of using a low-resourced language, i.e., Hindi language, to diagnose AD. In this paper, we present a dataset specifically for analyzing AD in the Hindi language, along with experimental results using various state-of-the-art algorithms to assess the diagnostic potential of speech narratives in Hindi. Our analysis suggests that speech narratives in the Hindi language have the potential to aid in the diagnosis of AD. Our dataset and code are made publicly available at https://github.com/rkritesh210/DementiaBankHindi.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.clinicalnlp-1.4
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 5th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Venue:
- ClinicalNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 24–30
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.clinicalnlp-1.4
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Kritesh Rauniyar, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Sweta Poudel, Surendrabikram Thapa, Usman Naseem, and Mehwish Nasim. 2023. Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Diagnostic Potential of Speech Narratives in Hindi for Alzheimer’s Disease. In Proceedings of the 5th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 24–30, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Diagnostic Potential of Speech Narratives in Hindi for Alzheimer’s Disease (Rauniyar et al., ClinicalNLP 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/2023.clinicalnlp-1.4.pdf